mrv3000 | DW: The Web Planet (One, Ian, Barbara, Vicki) / Inferno (Three, Liz)

The Web Planet

There are some Doctor Who episodes where you feel like the writer's actual audience was children. A wee bit dumbed down (although nothing like other shows dumbing stuff down) and a bit campier. (The Runaway Bride felt a lot like this to me - written mainly for kids.) This was The Web Planet.

Vicki was new - at first I thought she was Susan. I suppose I'll eventually get her backstory, but she does scream less than Susan.

Oh, the cheesetastic costumes! :D

The ant creatures. (Nice legs.)

The flying creatures.
Creature: You mind, buddy?
Doctor: Just trying to figure out if you're a fly or a bee.

The pillbug creatures. Pillbugs like slacks.

Ian: Come on! Roll up! For me? I wanna flick you across the room.

And finally, the...Swiffer Dust Mop creatures?

Inferno

Boy, what a difference 5 years make! Compare this episode to The Web Planet? There's hardly a comparison. This episode is *definitely* going into my top Classic episodes.

The more I see of Three, the more I love him. Which surprises me a bit since he's the least loonytoons of all the Doctors. No, Three is sensible. He's rather like listening to the BBC World Service where everything they say sounds sensible. If Three walked into the room and instructed me to reverse the polarity of my computer, I'd do it just because it'd be so very sensible.
First time seeing Liz and I really liked her. And she is also sensible. Also, she's really the first Companion I've seen who's actually seems to be an *assistant.* Oh, others help the Doctor, but she's an Assistant. I suddenly feel the urge to watch more Three and Liz episodes. Their combined sensibleness will most likely defeat dinosaurs.
I was expecting a cheesy AU, and was pleasantly surprised. Oh, there was cheesiness to be sure, but the whole AU part of it was actually pretty good. And even some snifty character stuff of people standing in the face of death.
Greg/Petra 4 EVA!!!!!!!! My total favorite guest characters in Classic Who! WOO! (New Who - the characters in The Impossible Planet.) But...they were three dimensional! And interesting! (Just like the people in TIP.)
"Dimensional paradox" for bringing people to another universe, eh? Tell that to Rose, Jackie and Mickey. Although, the Doctor seemed like he *just* realized that parallel worlds existed in Inferno and so maybe was making a guess? That'd be a pretty big guess and doom a handful of people that could have been saved. Including a second Greg/Petra - really, you can't have too many Greg/Petras around.
The Doctor was wearing a CAPE. Like, a cape! Cape. Okay, maybe Three is a wee bit loonytoons.
Not sure why the TARDIS console was out of the TARDIS. I'm *guessing* it has to do with the Time Lords clipping his wings and the Doctor trying to find a way around that. "I feel lost without my TARDIS." *pats Doctor*